Rationale: The workshop will invite the participants to utilize the process of group creation to discover and express occult and taboo tribal topics, expand primitive patterns, ways of thinking and group behavior.

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The goal of the workshop: Investigation of the occult in the therapeutic encounter, examination of the taboo in the intermediate space, and consideration of the relationship between internal, discrete materials in therapy and external political processes.

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Workshop type: A drama therapy workshop incorporating art

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Key words: Hunters, gatherers, shamanism, totemism, politics

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Background: The event occurs in the Taiga forest, home of the Chanti tribe. The tribe has survived years of occupation without succumbing to assimilation into the proletariat fraternity. The tribe is divided into clans - extended families that form a pagan social culture. Each clan has unique characteristics (hunters, gatherers, craftsmen, etc.) and corresponding goals. In order to survive as a tribe the clans must embark on a journey to investigate their personal and clan boundaries.

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The course of the workshop: The participants will be divided into clans. Each clan will build a totem animal which they will "serve", in accordance with their unique culture - for example, the totem of the Bear Clan protects the clan. The participants will play different roles within the ethnic groups: the head of the clan, a doctor, a priest, a farmer, and so on. Alongside its own unique identity, each clan must search for the mutual identity of the entire tribe.

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Method: The play method according to which we will act is called "Leelah - play for itself", which is based on the game of Dragons & Dungeons. According to Leelah, the moment an external eye views the playing is a moment of collapse, in which the playing ceases to exist. Therefore, the playing will take place without an audience; each participant takes a role and plays. The facilitators guide the course of the playing based on their characters.

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A link to videos and articles that illustrate the course of "Leelah" playing:

Leelah – play for itself

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About the Fascilitators

Eden Jaljuly: MA in Art Therapy - Lesley University; BA in Special Education - Beit Berl; Certification studies in (1) the interpretation of children's drawings and parent instruction, and (2) sexuality and socialism, from Michal Wimmer's Center. Currently specializes in art therapy for adolescents, via an annual course at the Kibbutzim College of Education and work at the Ministry of Education's Merchav (School Social - Emotional Center) program, in the framework of which she leads therapeutic groups for youth at Jaljulia School. In addition, she works at the Tira Regional Support Center.  050-2247433, danjal@gmail.com

Dov Blum-Yazdi: Drama Therapist and Clinical Criminologist. Graduate of psychotherapy mind-body-spirit program. Doctoral student in psychoanalysis and Hermeneutic: Bar-Ilan Uni. Works in "Place to be" a drama and arts therapy studio. Supervision and teaching in Arts Therapist training programs: Haifa Uni., Tel Hai Academic College. Researcher of "Leelah - a non directive play model" and "The play paradigm":Theoretical Concepts of Power, Identity and Liberty in the Therapeutic Playing Field. A peace activist. 052-5277726, dovblum@gmail.com